‘Nutcracker’ Casts Announced

American Ballet Theatre has announced casting for its new “Nutcracker,” which will receive its world premiere on Friday and run through Dec. 12 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Information: (714) 556-2787.

* Dec. 3, 8 p.m.: Yan Chen (Clara); Robert Wallace (Nutcracker Prince); Julie Kent (Sugar Plum Fairy); Robert Hill (Her Cavalier); Victor Barbee (Drosselmeyer).

* Dec. 4, 2 p.m.: Ashley Tuttle, Gil Boggs, Christina Fagundes, Jeremy Collins, Guillaume Graffin.

* Dec. 4, 8 p.m.: Paloma Herrera, Keith Roberts, Veronica Lynn, Charles Askegard, Barbee.

* Dec. 5, 2 p.m.: same as Dec. 3.

* Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.: same as Dec. 4 matinee.

* Dec. 7, 8 p.m.: Marianna Tcherkassky, Johan Renvall, Lynn, Askegard, Barbee.

* Dec. 8, 8 p.m.: Tuttle, Boggs, Kent, Graffin, Ethan Brown.

* Dec. 9, 8 p.m.: Herrera, Roberts, Fagundes, Collins, Barbee.

* Dec. 10, 8 p.m.: Tcherkassky, Renvall, Kent, Hill, Barbee.

* Dec. 11, 2 p.m.: Chen, Wallace, Cynthia Harvey, Graffin, Brown.

* Dec. 11, 8 p.m.: Sandra Brown, Steven Hyde, Kent, Hill, Barbee.

* Dec. 12, 2 p.m.: Herrera, Roberts, Lynn, Askegard, Graffin.

* Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m.: Tuttle, Boggs, Harvey, Graffin, Barbee.